Percentage depth dose curve

In Radiotherapy, one of the dosimetry processes involves characterising the clinical radiation beam by measurement of the variation of dose with depth (z) in a water phantom, for all energies and field sizes.

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Dose is then normalised to d_max (the depth of dose maximum) and a plot of relative dose versus depth in the phantom is produced.

See also

• Dosimetry
• Dose Profile

References

• [1] Radiation Therapy Physics, Hendee W., Ibbott G. and Hendee E. (2005) Wiley-Liss Publ., ISBN 0-471-39493-9